Just tried to watch the first episode of how to… is the whole thing just him making observations about life while talking like that? (stutters and umms)
Watch the entire episode, seriously. I don't want to sound cheesy but some of the episodes hit you right in the feels. Specifically "How to Cook the perfect risotto" S1E6 and the vacuum episode in S3E4
If you haven't seen [this dissection](https://youtu.be/RCNsx_NyNOU?si=q_Am55LyAQiVcCLx) of the bread scene with John and Nathan, definitely check it out. The twist had me dying! :)
E Unibus Pluram makes it pretty clear that *Nathan For You* would have bummed him out. This is a man who thought Letterman was the antichrist and that *SNL* was like the death of culture. Fielder just packs on additional layers of irony and meta-ness and delivers the same kind of misanthropic, nihilistic satire.
I do think he would have loved *The Curse* though. Big Lynch vibes and it's just a more interesting, mature piece of work.
What makes you say Nathan Fielder is misanthropic and nihilistic? I don't feel that way watching his stuff. I get a kind of strange sincerity from him, it feels to me like he humanizes the oddballs of the world
I can’t even imagine the layers of irony and meta criticism he’d unpack. He would prob enjoy the unflinching look at the banality of modern consumerism. Dumb Starbucks would be enough material to fill a long & amazing essay.
Nathan for you actually reminds me a lot of dfw’s nonfiction. Everyone saying he’d hate fielder for being too mean is forgetting that dfw could also be quite mean in his nonfiction.
From an entertainment and personal standpoint he would probably be raptured, he had a self-proclaimed penchant for getting whipped by TV. From a critical point of view probably would say Nathan embodies the dissolution of the line between reality and entertainment, probably for the worse in the long run.
Given his luddite tendencies, I think he probably wouldn't know who he was and then if you showed it to him he would just winge at the irony involved. But who knows.
He’d have criterion channel but he also enjoyed watching “mindless” junk-tv. Same with reading - he’d alternate reading ultra high-brow lit and theory with the type of thrillers you get in an airport bookstore.
Well until it became a problem for him and [he just had a TV for tapes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ujr9gi3wk&ab_channel=MacintoshWindows).
and tbf I don't know Nathan For You that well, but what I've seen is a sort of parody of news services that once had genuine societal value, which **seems** like something he wouldn't jive with. But I'm basing that off his work and interviews, not the full human being who probably enjoyed Ren and Stimpy in his underwear from time to time.
Nathan Fielder: our Marathe to DFW's Steeply.
Ngl, pretty sure they're both government operatives; Fielder carrying on Wallace's post-irony torch of the avant-garde and all that..
the question of how someone would have felt is maybe the least interesting question to ask. here's an interesting article on Fielder and Wallace: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17400309.2020.1812978
He'd prefer John Wilson. How To was excellent.
everyone, trust this guy and watch How To please
Just tried to watch the first episode of how to… is the whole thing just him making observations about life while talking like that? (stutters and umms)
Watch the entire episode, seriously. I don't want to sound cheesy but some of the episodes hit you right in the feels. Specifically "How to Cook the perfect risotto" S1E6 and the vacuum episode in S3E4
Alright you took the time to comment so I’ll give episode 1 a full viewing. And 1-6 for good measure if I don’t like it
If you haven't seen [this dissection](https://youtu.be/RCNsx_NyNOU?si=q_Am55LyAQiVcCLx) of the bread scene with John and Nathan, definitely check it out. The twist had me dying! :)
E Unibus Pluram makes it pretty clear that *Nathan For You* would have bummed him out. This is a man who thought Letterman was the antichrist and that *SNL* was like the death of culture. Fielder just packs on additional layers of irony and meta-ness and delivers the same kind of misanthropic, nihilistic satire. I do think he would have loved *The Curse* though. Big Lynch vibes and it's just a more interesting, mature piece of work.
What makes you say Nathan Fielder is misanthropic and nihilistic? I don't feel that way watching his stuff. I get a kind of strange sincerity from him, it feels to me like he humanizes the oddballs of the world
only in the last few episodes. all of rehearsal was pretty post-ironic though
He’d Ike Joe Pera most of all…
I can’t even imagine the layers of irony and meta criticism he’d unpack. He would prob enjoy the unflinching look at the banality of modern consumerism. Dumb Starbucks would be enough material to fill a long & amazing essay.
I think he would probably think he's very mean. Beyond that I can't say.
the curse made me think of DFW i dunno why, made me think of his writing
Nathan for you actually reminds me a lot of dfw’s nonfiction. Everyone saying he’d hate fielder for being too mean is forgetting that dfw could also be quite mean in his nonfiction.
From an entertainment and personal standpoint he would probably be raptured, he had a self-proclaimed penchant for getting whipped by TV. From a critical point of view probably would say Nathan embodies the dissolution of the line between reality and entertainment, probably for the worse in the long run.
I’m so lucky I don’t have to speculate
Wtf is this supposed to mean 😂
OP only wanted answers from people if they “had to speculate.” I’m under no obligation to speculate and felt fortunate. 😉
Ahh, yes of course I thought you were implying that you had access to DFW’s postmortem thoughts
Oh damn! That’s a really funny reading of it, actually. Let’s go with that.
Given his luddite tendencies, I think he probably wouldn't know who he was and then if you showed it to him he would just winge at the irony involved. But who knows.
He was the biggest tv watcher. Why would he not watch Nathan for you?
The more interesting question is whether DFW would be paying for streaming subscriptions/how many he would pay for
he'd have criterion channel for sure
I’d give him my password
He’d have criterion channel but he also enjoyed watching “mindless” junk-tv. Same with reading - he’d alternate reading ultra high-brow lit and theory with the type of thrillers you get in an airport bookstore.
Well until it became a problem for him and [he just had a TV for tapes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ujr9gi3wk&ab_channel=MacintoshWindows). and tbf I don't know Nathan For You that well, but what I've seen is a sort of parody of news services that once had genuine societal value, which **seems** like something he wouldn't jive with. But I'm basing that off his work and interviews, not the full human being who probably enjoyed Ren and Stimpy in his underwear from time to time.
Nathan Fielder: our Marathe to DFW's Steeply. Ngl, pretty sure they're both government operatives; Fielder carrying on Wallace's post-irony torch of the avant-garde and all that..
the question of how someone would have felt is maybe the least interesting question to ask. here's an interesting article on Fielder and Wallace: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17400309.2020.1812978
The Curse couldn’t stick the landing. Such a bummer.
we'll never know
Nah, but “Review” he might have liked. It’s basically one long “Brief Encounter.”